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Base styles for the DOBT View Layer.
https://design.dobt.co/
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Switch display typeface to Trade Gothic Wide #168

Closed jrubenoff closed 9 years ago

jrubenoff commented 9 years ago

I was trying to improve the blog's design, and work on our layout for plain-text pages (like the Terms and Conditions pages). I was having a lot of trouble working with Source Sans Pro. It's too dissimilar to Franklin Gothic to have the refined look I'm going for. So I spent this afternoon switching our display typeface.

I also adjusted the size of our h1 and h2 so that the difference should be negligible:

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None of our layouts should be broken by this change, because the type takes up the same amount of space. A quick check across most of our repos confirms this: zero bugs. Still, different typefaces are different, so I've made some optimizations across our other repos.

Also, this looks :100: in IE9.

ajb commented 9 years ago

So a stupid question... you mention:

It's too dissimilar to Franklin Gothic to have the refined look I'm going for.

Why not just use a lighter weight of Franklin Gothic for the display typeface?

Also, next time, I think we should create a new Typekit "kit" instead of modifying the existing one... right?

Anyway, feel free to merge :+1:

ajb commented 9 years ago

I'm gonna merge this myself so I can merge other stuff :)

jrubenoff commented 9 years ago

Why not just use a lighter weight of Franklin Gothic for the display typeface?

Problem is, it's not on TypeKit.

ajb commented 9 years ago

The light weights aren't? Weird.